External Advisory Board

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Marcia Howard is an English teacher at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, Vice President of the Minnesota Federation of Teachers, and a community activist in George Floyd Square, as the community around the site where Floyd was murdered is now known. Ms. Howard has long excelled as a high…

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David Rolf has worked as a labor leader, organizer, author, and strategist working to build the next American labor movement. He has been called “the most successful union organizer in America” by Fast Company, and American Prospect wrote that “no American unionist has…

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Cedric de Leon is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published five books including Crisis! When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule (2019) and The Origins of Right to Work (2015). He writes on race…

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Cedric Johnson is Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His teaching and research interests include African American political thought, neoliberal politics, and class analysis and race. His most recent book, The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now…

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Ruth Milkman is a sociologist of labor and labor movements who has written on a variety of topics involving work and organized labor in the United States, past and present. Her most recent books are Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Polity, 2020) and On Gender, Labor and Inequality…

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Heidi Gottfried received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1987. Her research interests span areas, ranging from sociology of work, the care economy, sociology of gender, welfare state, feminist theory, labor movements, to comparative political economy. She has co-edited…

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Johnnie Lotesta is a political and cultural sociologist with interests in political parties, labor and social movements, public policy, and American politics. She received her PhD in Sociology from Brown University in 2019 and was a Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic…